Palo Alto Police Department

An assault Thursday afternoon in Palo Alto is being investigated as a hate crime, police announced on Monday.

Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at the Palo Alto Transit Center over the weekend.

An attempted strong-arm robbery of an elderly woman on a walk May 14 may be just one of several such crimes committed by the same suspects around the Bay Area, according to police in Palo Alto.

A former Palo Alto police sergeant facing criminal assault charges for roughing up a city resident during a 2018 arrest had a prior reputation for using force and a questionable nickname among fellow officers to match, according to recent court records filed by Santa Clara County prosecutors.

Four teenage boys from Oakland were arrested after allegedly robbing a woman and trying to steal her vehicle at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto on Monday evening, according to police.

Palo Alto police are looking for a man who tried to carjack a vehicle that had two young children inside near the Stanford Arboretum Children’s Center on Tuesday.

A Palo Alto police officer at the center of multiple excessive force allegations is no longer with the department, NBC Bay Area has independently confirmed.

A Palo Alto police officer at the center of multiple excessive force allegations is no longer with the department, NBC Bay Area has confirmed.

A former Palo Alto police sergeant is facing criminal charges, stemming from a controversial arrest our Investigative Unit first showed you last year. Ian Cull reports.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office filed two misdemeanor charges Tuesday against a former Palo Alto Police officer more than a year after surveillance video appeared to show him striking a handcuffed resident and slamming his head against a car windshield.

A former Palo Alto police sergeant is facing criminal charges stemming from a controversial arrest the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit first showed you last year. Senior Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock reports.

The Santa Clara County D-A’s office is now walking back a public statement made last week, saying they would not be charging a Palo Alto police officer accused of excessive force.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office walked back a recent public statement this week that it would not file criminal charges against a Palo Alto police officer accused of excessive force.

Months before the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis ignited outrage and protests across the country, the FBI’s Civil Rights division began quietly investigating a 2018 incident in Palo Alto that led to claims of brutality, bias, and a potential cover-up against the city’s police department.

Julio Arevalo said he just wanted to get his son a donut when he left his home at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park late one night last July. He never came home with that donut. In the morning, Arevalo says he woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed with a fractured bone in his face and a brace around…

One Palo Alto officer has been named in a third civil rights lawsuit, raising questions and increasing concerns about the department’s transparency and use of force. Stephen Stock reports.

The city of Palo Alto on Monday agreed to pay over a half-million dollars to a man who sued the city this year after he said Palo Alto police unlawfully detained and assaulted him outside his mobile home in 2018.

A settlement has been reached in a civil rights lawsuit in Palo Alto after a violent arrest in February 2018 involving a gay man who alleged officers used excessive force and mocked his homosexuality.

Police are investigating after two employees who recently left Tesla allegedly failed to return company laptops and were reported for theft, the Palo Alto Police Department said Friday.